Lot Essay
Although no library furniture is listed in the surviving Gillow bill, the Memorandum is sufficiently detailed for it to be certain that they supplied the main boulle library desk (lot 22) and a circular drum table no longer in the house but visible in early photographs. As this reading table is in Gillow's style and matches one illustrated in one of their room elevations, the evidence of the Memorandum is confirmed.
Another plainer but very closely related is illustrated in the General Sketch Book, 1810, p. 51.
The Gillow Drawing Room elevation that includes a table of exactly this type is among a group of watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum (E.47-1952).
Another plainer but very closely related is illustrated in the General Sketch Book, 1810, p. 51.
The Gillow Drawing Room elevation that includes a table of exactly this type is among a group of watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum (E.47-1952).